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It seems reasonable to want Copilot to help you produce code of a reasonable quality. If it’s just helping you crank out the same bad code more quickly, withou
by iainmerrick 5y ago
It seems reasonable to want Copilot to help you produce code of a reasonable quality.
If it’s just helping you crank out the same bad code more quickly, without learning anything in the process, that’s useful to know. Some people might still want a tool like that, I wouldn’t.
- burnished 5y agoSure. But in order to know if its 'of reasonable quality' you need some sort of baseline to compare it to. What is reasonable quality? I think what your average human does is probably reasonable. Like, if your average dev will produce insecure code in 80% of samples, then Copilot starts to look really good! But if its closer to 0.01% of code samples, then copilot looks more like an intriguing novelty, not to be brought too near serious work. Much like dippin dots in this regard.